41+ Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Vs Normal Brain Background. Normal prion protein is manufactured in the healthy brain. Histological findings in brain tissue of scjd (a and b) and.
The mission of the national institute of neurological disorders and stroke (ninds) is to seek fundamental knowledge of the brain and nervous system and to use that knowledge to reduce the burden of neurological disease.
It is one of a group of rare diseases that affects humans and animals, known as the symptoms of cjd are caused by changes occurring to brain tissue. In the united states there are about 300 cases per year. The hallmark of this disease is mental deterioration and involuntary muscle spasms. Cjd occurs throughout the world at an incidence of one in every one million people.
